How To Install cdbackup on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cdbackup
on Debian 10.
What is cdbackup
cdbackup is:
cdbackup and cdrestore are a pair of utilities designed to facilitate streaming backup to and from CD-R(W) disks. Specifically, they were designed to work with dump/restore, but tar/cpio/whatever you want should work, so long as it writes to stdout for backups and reads from stdin for restores.
There are three methods to install cdbackup
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cdbackup Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cdbackup
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cdbackup
Install cdbackup Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cdbackup
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cdbackup
Install cdbackup Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cdbackup
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cdbackup
How To Uninstall cdbackup on Debian 10
To uninstall only the cdbackup
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cdbackup
Uninstall cdbackup And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cdbackup
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cdbackup
Remove cdbackup Configurations and Data
To remove cdbackup
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cdbackup
Remove cdbackup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cdbackup
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cdbackup
Dependencies
cdbackup have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cdbackup
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.